linux-kernel - [PATCH] KVM: MMU: protect TDP MMU pages only down to required level

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Date:   Fri,  2 Apr 2021 08:17:04 -0400
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: MMU: protect TDP MMU pages only down to required level

When using manual protection of dirty pages, it is not necessary
to protect nested page tables down to the 4K level; instead KVM
can protect only hugepages in order to split them lazily, and
delay write protection at 4K-granularity until KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG.
This was overlooked in the TDP MMU, so do it there as well.

Fixes: a6a0b05da9f37 ("kvm: x86/mmu: Support dirty logging for the TDP MMU")
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index efb41f31e80a..0d92a269c5fa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -5538,7 +5538,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(struct kvm *kvm,
 	flush = slot_handle_level(kvm, memslot, slot_rmap_write_protect,
 				start_level, KVM_MAX_HUGEPAGE_LEVEL, false);
 	if (is_tdp_mmu_enabled(kvm))
-		flush |= kvm_tdp_mmu_wrprot_slot(kvm, memslot, PG_LEVEL_4K);
+		flush |= kvm_tdp_mmu_wrprot_slot(kvm, memslot, start_level);
 	write_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.26.2